Sandra L. Rierson

Professor Rierson joined the TJSL faculty in the fall of 2002. After graduating from law school, where she was the symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal, she clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Gadbois, in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Professor Rierson subsequently practiced law with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, also in Los Angeles, where she became a partner in 1998. Her litigation practice focused on intellectual property and employment law, government contracts and general business disputes.

She also has taught at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Rierson’s scholarship is in the areas of legal history and women’s history, intellectual property and civil procedure.